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Think of Weegee as a chronological and psychological midpoint between two utterly different photographers. One is the turn-of-the-century muckraker Jacob Riis, who saw New York City as a social problem to be solved. The other is Diane Arbus, who found in the city life of the 1960s a psychic spectacle of creepy fascination. Weegee haunts the same kind of shabby neighborhoods that Riis did. But what goes on in Weegee's festive, suffering, unsanitary New York is a sight to be enjoyed more than clucked over. The tenements that preoccupied Riis, a moralist and social reformer...
Last year--at the midpoint of the campaign--Harvard raised more than $420 million...
...Village Vanguard" falls roughly at the midpoint of Coltrane's career, both chronologically and stylistically. He had just changed recording labels and had only recently settled on a brilliant rhythm section featuring pianist McCoy Tyner and drummer Elvin Jones. Coltrane's style and musical conception never stopped changing throughout his career, and these recordings reflect a serious departure from the structures and techniques of mainstream jazz of the time. Complex, static song structures were inhibiting what Coltrane wanted to do musically and he began looking towards Eastern ethnic music for influence. Coltrane began to experiment with instrumentation to dramatic effect...
This weekend Harvard athletic teams are entering the midpoint of their season--a time where each game becomes crucial and standings are watched in earnest. Youth is expected to be matured, kinks ironed out and true potential achieved...
...where did Harvard actually beat the competition? We placed first in student selectivity, based on acceptance rate (12 percent), yield (75 percent), average or midpoint SAT score (1370-1560 for the 25th to 75th percentile) and high school class standing of entering first-years. Thank goodness. At least we can still say we're the most selective (and by extension, most elitist) school in the country. That's a relief...